Next week, the U.S. Census Bureau will release 2010 Census Demographic Profiles for Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. In May, the Census Bureau will provide data for 13 states each week on age and sex distributions, race, Hispanic or Latino origin, household relationship and type, the group quarters population, housing occupancy (including vacancy status) and tenure (whether the housing occupant owns or rents).

Profiles will be available for each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico down to the place/functioning minor civil division-level. Profiles for the United States, regions and divisions will be available at the end of May with the final states' releases.

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The demographic profiles for these 13 states will be available on an embargoed basis for accredited media who are registered for access on Tuesday, May 17 at 10 a.m. The embargo will be lifted and the data released publicly on Thursday, May 19 at 12:01 a.m.

To apply for embargo access, go to our Newsroom at <http://www.census.gov/newsroom> and click on “Embargoed Releases.” Please review the Embargo Policy carefully before submitting the embargo registration form.